linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] virtio-net: inline header support

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Message-ID: <506D3610.7000103@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 04 Oct 2012 09:09:04 +0200
From:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
CC:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Lendacky <tahm@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, avi@...hat.com,
	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] virtio-net: inline header support

Il 04/10/2012 02:11, Rusty Russell ha scritto:
> > > There's a reason I haven't done this.  I really, really dislike "my
> > > implemention isn't broken" feature bits.  We could have an infinite
> > > number of them, for each bug in each device.
> >
> > However, this bug affects (almost) all implementations and (almost) all
> > devices.  It even makes sense to reserve a transport feature bit for it
> > instead of a device feature bit.
>
> Perhaps, but we have to fix the bugs first!

Yes. :)  Isn't that what mst's patch does?

> As I said, my torture patch broke qemu immediately.  Since noone has
> leapt onto fixing that, I'll take a look now...

I can look at virtio-scsi.

Paolo
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